The intricacies of New York City’s zoning laws tend to make even the wonkiest of city wonks’ eyes glaze over, but it’s almost impossible to overstate the importance of those byzantine rules and the ...

Over the last decade, the landscape of New York City has seen an unprecedented amount of change. Luxury towers and megaprojects rose across the city, and miles of previously off-limits coastline were ...

The acronym NIMBY, meaning “not in my backyard,” and its opposite, YIMBY, for “yes in my backyard,” entered the lexicon sometime in the early 1980s. The first NIMBY mention I can find in the New York ...

All along the coast of New York City, hard decisions are being made about how to address the inevitability of sea level rise. An enormous sea wall is rising in Staten Island, massive storm surge gates ...

Traffic in New York has reached a crisis point. Between controversial congestion pricing measures, busway lawsuits, bike lane community meeting meltdowns—not to mention an uptick in fatalities this ...

After 70 years of promises, Brooklyn’s newest waterfront park is finally open for visitors. The first section of Shirley Chisholm State Park recently made its official debut on a site that was ...

Down on the Red Hook waterfront, a part of Brooklyn’s history is being erased. This week, two of the neighborhood’s most significant historic industrial structures—the S.W. Bowne Grain Storehouse and ...

In the fall of 1988—in a scene so cliche it’s sometimes hard for me to believe that it actually happened—I arrived at Port Authority bus terminal with a suitcase, a blank check from my parents, and a ...

In the 1970s, fires ravaged much of the Bronx: seven census tracts lost 97 percent of their buildings and 44 tracts lost more than 50 percent. Many people still believe that those fires were the ...

Tucked away from the hustle and bustle of Times Square and nearly hidden from view from most tourists, you’ll find the Blue Store & DVD, a sex shop located in the shadow of the 52-story New York Times ...

This week’s opening of the Hudson Yards megaproject is the culmination of nearly 20 years of work—on the part of city and state officials, developers, and other stakeholders—to create an entirely new ...

It took Amazon nearly a year to select the two cities that would house its second, split-up North American headquarters, and only three months for one of those deals—with New York City—to fall apart.